On 04/01/09 23:30, Uros Nedic wrote: > Hello Michelle, > > You have wonderful voice and I really enjoyed listening how you speak. > To make things easy I suggest http://www.odiogo.com/ text-to-speech > tool. It becomes very popular these days because people usually translate > blogs and articles of interest to MP3s and listen them while they are > travelling to the work place. I want to say big thank you because you > translated my idea to reality (I know that it is much easier to > write ideas then to put them into reality). >
Cool, I'll look into odiogo.com. > My original idea is slightly different. I was thinking about this > weekly news podcast as a typical radio news show. It should has > three parts: > *Highlights (from one to three sentences about each news)-up to 1min > *Detailed news (covering each news with journalistic type of view)-up to 15 > min > *Event of the week (interview with one or more persons covering > most significant event or project of that week, or if there is not any such > thing then speaking with one of many of different UGs leaders, Community > leaders, etc.) - up to 15min. > If you can write the script for this, I can read, record and publish it. But, 30+ minutes will take much longer for me to record properly, so I'm not sure if I could manage it every week. Maybe 3 other advocates could help by taking one week of the month each? > Also show should have covered background sound which logically divides > each part, like in any other radio news show (i.e. BBC World Service). > Ah, good point, I'll test out splitting the recording into 'chapters' and adding some jingle. -Michelle > Uros > > > -----Original Message----- > From: advocacy-discuss-bounces at opensolaris.org > [mailto:advocacy-discuss-bounces at opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Michelle > Olson > Sent: April 1, 2009 9:25 PM > To: ADVOCACY-DISCUSS > Subject: Re: [advocacy-discuss] One proposal > > Hi all, > > I gave this idea a try here: > > http://mediacast.sun.com/users/michelle12345/media/osol_news.mp3/details > > It is an 11-minute podcast of the monthly newsletter content. This is my > first podcast, so there are some sound quality issues I will resolve if > you all think this is worth continuing. It only took one hour, which is > about all the time I could put into this, but I'm happy to record these. > Thanks to Uros for this great idea and of course to Jim Grisanzio for > driving the newsletter. Even if it isn't what we decide to do, I really > enjoyed trying it out. > > -Michelle > > On 03/29/09 23:23, Mykola Maslov wrote: > >> Heh, agree, let`s see how podcast idea will show itself. >> >> >>> My idea is to be simple that ANYONE in the world could access to it, >>> and to be something like news oriented show. >>> >>> Your idea is advanced but, also much more technically oriented, similar >>> to some short video tutorials. I do not have anything against that, but >>> from my perspective, weekly based news/talk show podcast will be enough >>> for the first time. >>> >>> Uros >>> >>>> It will be very nice that SUN establish 30min audio podcast >>>> dedicated to >>>> OpenSolaris on a weekly basis designed by professional journalist. Each >>>> week should be covered past week in OpenSolaris world, added with >>>> conversation >>>> with one of SUN engineers, OGB members or people from UGs explaining >>>> some interesting topic. It will be very nice to hear how people see >>>> OpenSolaris >>>> from various part of the world. >>>> >>>> From my perspective Community based business model, is [business] >>>> model >>>> for >>>> 21st century. It already has huge impact in economy, culture and >>>> absolutely >>>> will have in government politics and collecting humanity together >>>> around >>>> >>> one >>> >>>> idea - respect, educaton and happiness for all! >>>> >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Uros >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> I think that simply audio podcast is a little archaic... >>> >>> Video podcast, showing OS advantages and usage of different software >>> on OS >>> will have much more influence. Like using Gimp triks, or OpenOffice, >>> or building of home NAS, whatever... >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> > > _______________________________________________ > advocacy-discuss mailing list > advocacy-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy-discuss > > _______________________________________________ > advocacy-discuss mailing list > advocacy-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy-discuss >
